The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLII

[Birdjaguar]

@aimeeandbeatles Try filling the jar with water and letting it sit over night or longer. You could even put the jar in a larger pot that has water in it and heat the candy jar water in this makeshift double boiler. The candy should dissolve in warm water.

Or, if your microwave is big enough, fill the candy jar with water and heat it in the microwave for a couple of minutes at a time and check it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thanks. I put some hot water in it to sit (and dish detergent; maybe it'll make things more slippery?)

Tip of the day: Don't leave jars full of hard candy near the stove.

 

[Takhisis]

You make it feel as if you weren't eating enough candy to prevent this from happening.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Sometimes candy gets forgotten or moved.

I guess the addition of soap means this particular candy isn't meant for consumption now.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You make it feel as if you weren't eating enough candy to prevent this from happening.

I forgot about it. Oops!

I guess the addition of soap means this particular candy isn't meant for consumption now.

I wasn't expecting to salvage it anyways, lol.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

How can I, if it's even possible at all, to prove that I'm not selfish by trying to help myself?

 

[Birdjaguar]

You cannot; just stay away from those who demand such a ridiculous thing.

 

[Takhisis]

How can I, if it's even possible at all, to prove that I'm not selfish by trying to help myself?

So should you just do things that are bad for you? Keep a healthful distance from such people, I'd say.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

So should you just do things that are bad for you? Keep a healthful distance from such people, I'd say.

What I keep being told is that instead of trying to help myself, I should be helping others.

 

[Gori the Grey]

It's not an either/or.

The people who are pressing this on you are in possession of a half-truth. You will receive your own greatest satisfaction in life from helping others. That doesn't have to be done, though, to the exclusion of pursuing your own interests. And it tends to happen when you've made your own life stable enough that you reach a point of positively wanting to reach out to others.

But no one's got any business insisting that you prove that you're doing one or the other.

All just mho, of course.

 

[Takhisis]

What I keep being told is that instead of trying to help myself, I should be helping others.

Yes, but you cannot just go on sacrificing yourself for somebody else.

Are the people who call you selfish also the people who are trying to get you to do something for them instead of for you?

 

[sophie]

Sometimes to help others you must first help yourself

Building healthy relationships requires establishing and maintaining firm boundaries. You are their friend, not their servant. I know it sounds scary, and starting is really tough, but it will make for stronger and healthier relationships in the long run, and those who reject or consistently cross your boundaries were never really your friends to begin with.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Are the people who call you selfish also the people who are trying to get you to do something for them instead of for you?

Not yet, but I get the feeling that they will bring it up to me in the near future in how I am hurting them with my own selfishness.

 

[Cutlass]

Why are MRI machines so loud?

 

[sophie]

Not yet, but I get the feeling that they will bring it up to me in the near future in how I am hurting them with my own selfishness.

 

[Takhisis]

I was going to write something about how manipulative people can be but I think schalufuchs's post covers the basics.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

No, I'm not the victim. I'm the one who's always at fault and wrong. They are the real victims who have had infinite patience with all of my problems as I keep ruining their lives.

 

[Birdjaguar]

No, I'm not the victim. I'm the one who's always at fault and wrong. They are the real victims who have had infinite patience with all of my problems as I keep ruining their lives.

Nonsense; they are not victims. They are manipulating you.

 

[thetrooper]

Why are MRI machines so loud?

IIRC; coils making the noise when current is switched on and off.

Did you have one?

 

[MrCynical]

Why are MRI machines so loud?

In addition to the main magnet, MRI machines contain sets of wire coils known as "gradient coils" that create weaker secondary magnetic fields within it. These secondary fields distort the main magnetic field, and hence the resonant frequency of nuclei in the patient's body, by an amount depending on the distance between the nuclei and the gradient coil. ("gradient" refers to the gradient in magnetic field strength across the patient's body). This is how the machine measures the relative positions of the nuclei inside the scanner, which is required for building up the image of the patient's body.

In certain types of scans the electrical current, and hence the direction of the magnetic gradient, is switched back and forth rapidly. Since the gradient coils have a magnetic field, there is a force exerted on them by the field of the more powerful main magnet they are inside. When the gradient direction is switched, so is the direction of this force, resulting in the gradient coils vibrating back and forth during these kinds of pulse sequences. This generates most of the extremely loud noises these machines make.

There have been various approaches to trying to make less noisy MRI machines. One is hardware alterations - isolating the gradient coils inside a vacuum chamber to try and prevent sound transfer to the rest of the machine, and other types of soundproofing. Another is altering the scanning patterns to minimize the amount of gradient coil switching. While is possible to eliminate most of the noise that way, this does come at the price of decreasing the image resolution, and substantially increases the amount of time required for a scan.